Let’s Make Saving a Habit - Chapter 74

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Chapter 74
Elysion let out a dry laugh as he watched me greet him with composure.
“A summoning circle suddenly appeared beneath my feet—you startled me. What’s going on that you’d use a pendant you’ve never touched before?”
“Sion, you know what? Today is my birthday.”
“What…? Tania, you suddenly summon me and say that? What do you mean?”
Elysion asked for the full story with a bewildered expression, but I simply conveyed what I wanted to say.
Even knowing it was one-sided.
“You kept asking me when my birthday was. I always said I didn’t know.”
“That’s… true.”
“The truth is, I didn’t know my own birthday. So I decided to make today, August 1st, my birthday.”
“…Tania, aren’t you mistaken about the date? It’s October now. It can’t be August.”
“Everyone celebrated me, but thinking of you, I couldn’t shake this lingering regret.”
Confusion bloomed across Elysion’s face.
“Tania, I don’t understand what you’re saying at all. Explain from the beginning, slowly.”
“You don’t need to understand anything else. I came all this way because I wanted you to celebrate my birthday. That’s all that matters.”
“Tania.”
“In a timeline I’ve already abandoned, you’re the one attachment I have left.”
“…”
Elysion’s lips parted slightly. He seemed both startled by my confession and filled with joy.
“So I’ll accept just one birthday gift from you, my lingering attachment.”
Before Elysion could respond, I threw myself into his arms.
His body went rigid as he instinctively embraced me.
It was so endearing that I pressed myself against him and felt his heartbeat.
His heart thundered wildly, screaming that he loved me.
This made my earlier attempt to stop his confession utterly pointless.
Even without hearing the words, I already felt I’d heard them.
I smiled softly and asked in a subtle tone.
“Sion, you like me, don’t you?”
It was the second time I’d asked. But I didn’t want to hear the answer.
Not then, not now.
Because hearing it would only make things harder.
Before Elysion could respond, I rose onto my toes and stole a kiss from his lips.
In that moment, his eyes meeting mine made time feel suspended.
It was merely a kiss, yet my head spun and my heart felt ready to burst.
A wave of guilt and transgression coursed down my spine.
Having robbed Elysion of a gift like a thief, I narrowed my eyes wickedly.
“Sion, you’re a man after all.”
Pressed against him as I was, I could feel every change far too vividly.
Though I spoke casually, I knew my face had flushed crimson.
Every place where our bodies touched burned hot and sensitive, as though seared by flame.
If I go any further from here, there truly will be no turning back.
I suppressed the burning desire and ultimately drew upon my ability.
[Calling Viewpoint 1.]
Returned to my eight-year-old self on the plush Bedroom, I buried my face in the pillow.
Thump.
Then, with a face flushed crimson, I began thrashing at the bedding wildly.
“Ahhhhhhhhh!”
“Idiot, idiot, idiot! Why did I go see Elysion!”
“I knew it would turn out this way! I knew it was a memory that would be forgotten anyway!”
“If I’d gone, I should have just accepted the birthday wishes and left—why did I impulsively kiss him and make things so awkward!”
In the end, my original purpose of receiving birthday congratulations from Elysion was replaced by extorting a birthday gift from him instead.
For several minutes, I continued to torment the innocent pillow.
Once my excessively excited heart had calmed somewhat, my mind went blank.
“Elysion… I miss you.”
I’d just seen him moments ago, so why did I keep wanting to see him?
It wasn’t supposed to be like this.
The more I saw him, the more I found myself coveting Elysion instead. I grew greedy for him.
If I had realized sooner that I was falling in love with him, would something have changed?
No—even if I had known, I would have returned to age seven to save Aiden.
My mouth tasted bitter.
Then, a strange sound came from the Window.
It was the sound of someone tapping against the glass.
Wondering if a bird was pecking at it with its beak, I approached the Window and drew back the curtain.
Elysion immediately knocked on the Window with an urgent expression, as if demanding I open it.
“This is the Third Floor…”
For a moment, I thought my eyes were deceiving me and rubbed them frantically, but nothing changed.
Once I was certain it wasn’t a hallucination or a dream, I hastily opened the Window and pulled him into the room.
“Sion! What are you doing out there in the middle of the night, so dangerously? You startled me, floating around in the sky like that.
But Elysion brushed off his clothes as though it were nothing, then suddenly tilted his head.
“Tania, today is your birthday, isn’t it?”
“…Huh? How did you know?”
“Why didn’t you tell me? If there was a celebration party, you should have invited me too.”
Elysion appeared somewhat upset.
But that was short-lived—he let out a deep sigh and pulled me into his embrace.
“Oh…”
Finding myself suddenly held by him, I blinked in confusion at the reversal of our earlier situation.
As he held me, his voice became calm, as if his anger had never existed.
“Happy birthday. It’s not past midnight yet, so I’m wishing you well in time, aren’t I?”
“…”
Yes, Elysion was here in this world too.
I embraced Elysion with trembling hands.
I never imagined I would receive birthday wishes from a younger Elysion.
If I continued holding him like this, I feared I would break down in tears, so I grumbled unnecessarily.
“Just words?”
“I came prepared with a gift, knowing you’d say that.”
Elysion loosened his grip around me and pulled a red ribbon from his pocket.
Then, with careful deliberation, he placed it on his own head and tied a knot beneath his chin.
Surely not?
They say assumptions are what get people killed.
Elysion’s eyes narrowed with a fox-like cunning.
“I’ll give myself to you as a gift.”
How could this be flirtation from a child three years younger than me?
It was beyond absurd—it was utterly ridiculous.
How many young girls’ hearts must Elysion have captivated when he was younger?

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